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[@Lau3464l]

firstly ashley thank you so much for your social media posts talking about how even if you have common plants, cheap plants, only a few plants, you're still a plant parent and a member of this community! i have around 75 plants, but they're all common or relatively common, and sometimes it feels like i have nothing to offer the community and won't be welcomed if i don't have the latest trends or rarest and most expensive species. but my plants all make me so happy! every new leaf, every trailing vine, they make me so happy and make my house feel like a home. also, my string of turtles is one of my favourites! I love how much they flower and how their little vines grow with the tiny little turtles.. just makes my heart sing! and i love pileas a lot! they're so rewarding and easy :)

[@PlantingAshley]

Im really sorry to hear that youve felt thst way :( every person who loves plants, and maybe only has a few, is worthy of being a plant parent and being in the community :)

[@SickBoiRENegade]

🥰I totally felt that!!!

[@debbielee9624]

Your whole speech about how plant collecting is for everyone really shows how much you genuinely love it and it's so inspiring 🥰

[@PlantingAshley]

I really do ! This community is amazing and i hate gatekeeping

[@silverc.8105]

@5:00 I'm not a botanist so take this with a grain of salt but I believe those kind of evolutions usually are just a matter of the species with the helpful mutation passing on their genes the most. Like the example I always remember from school is there's a species of butterflies in an area and they're orange but a mutation appears that makes some brown, the mutation makes it harder to see while resting on trees so it passes on its genes and over generations and generations eventually there's more brown and it looks like they've evolved to mimic the tree bark.

[@crochetqueen6440]

yep and the ones that are butterfly shaped are the ones that survive and others die so that gene pool becomes stronger

[@lisatietze9369]

Was going to comment on this too since this is basically my field (biotechnology). In general every population has variance. Take us humans, we all vary in size for example. Now if this variance or a mutation gives a benefit - like the plant leaves looking more like a butterfly shape - then it can lead to better survival. Lets say usually this plant did not have butterfly shaped leaves. But through normal variance and mutations within a population some plants ended up with more butterfly shaped leaves. the other plants get eaten by bugs, so they cannot grow so well, but the one with more butterfly shaped leaves can grow in peace and propagate easily. And their offspring may have the same trait and thus again having better chances of survival etc. So over time the entire population will be made up of plants with butterfly shaped leaves because they were the most fit to survive and the rest died because they were not able to compete

[@KelliesHoya]

Lmao "how does the plant know what a butterfly look like" oh man tea shot our my nose when I heard that. Never thought a random plant mutation evolutionary process would make me laugh so hard.

[@PlantingAshley]

🤣🤣

[@ashleymay6237]

I love common plants bc they grow fast and it’s more satisfying to me to see a huge pothos or philodendron in their mature form. 💚

[@lennylols9198]

since im just a child still my parents probably wont let me own more than one plant cuz they probably dont think i can take care of it, and i also have to get one for beginners, and a pet friendly one, and one that looks pretty enough to my parents and i am the only one in this family who really likes plants so that makes it extra hard, ive just barely gotten by with an african violet because my mom's family used have them in the house back where she's from so its nostalgic to her, but its still kinda nice to know that i could still be considered part of the community with just one plant and of all things an african violet

[@mathilda6763]

If you are able to keep an African violet alive you're most definitely on your way to being a pro. Those are hard.

[@lennylols9198]

well actually when i typed this i was waiting for my parents to buy it, but they wont any more for some reason, so i asked for them to at least get chia seeds because i heard they are pretty easy to grow, but tbh i dont think that they'll actually get it, so idk if im really part of it or not if i just really like plants but dont have any

[@iwalanibajala5251]

I love your closing message about being a plant collector. “Common plants” helped me be a better plant parent and I’ll forever keep my original pothos. 🥰

[@mushroomtoad2022]

All of mine pretty much are cheap and common. I love them though

[@PlantingAshley]

I love them too!

[@raainwitch]

Oh man I’m not even going to try to collect expensive plants. In fact, I intentionally buy them as babies so they’re cheaper. I do own one expensive plant, but that’s only because my best friend gave it to me as a gift for my MSW graduation.

[@PlantingAshley]

Yes BABY PLANT✨

[@laurenervin1404]

I'm OBSESSED with my black pagoda!💞 I was also able to get a pretty established plant as well and it just absolutely TOOK OFF this spring and summer! I've had it outside for the majority of the time I've owned it, but when I have to bring it in in the fall I'm hoping to find a spot to hang it a bit higher so that you can easily see the underside of the leaves! I saw someone that had theirs hanging above their kitchen table so that when you were seated you saw the beautiful pattern underneath!😍

[@tonyasanders9652]

Appreciate this video Ashley times are hard for us who can't afford the Rare plants.

[@dianahartley-kim7109]

I am a common plant collector. Mostly because I like easier care plants. Pretty kitty 🐈‍⬛

[@breakingburque2200]

I use the silver dude and spider plants as water gauges. The dude will flop over and the spider gets dull.

[@learningtoliveaslowerlife7370]

I think it's great that even though you have so many rare & higher priced plant's you still get so much joy from more common easy to find plants. I spent last year collecting some more uncommon/rare plant's but my heart will always belong to easy to find trailing heart leaf philos and my string of hearts/turtles (in the uk they are really cheap). Keep the great content coming, also the raven cameos 🥰💚🌿

[@maddhappy2286]

My marble queen is one of my favorites, give it enough light and it just goes so verigated and lovely

[@PlantingAshley]

🥺

[@sharonpollitt1524]

AMEN! to owning inexpensive common plants.

[@katieh1123]

The AC easter egg is everythinggggg.

[@theplantwitch6052]

Agreed. Loved it

[@rhondafisher72]

Great to hear that you have more common plants in your collection, I see a lot of people do today. I for one am a lover of them. Thanks for showing some of yours.

[@BLANKU2]

I say buy what sparks joy within you when it comes to your personal plant collection. Like I keep a few of the plants I grew up seeing my Mom own and they remind me of my childhood. Just because someone else might walk past what you find beautiful just shows were all unique in what calls to us in the plant world. My obsession this summer has been miniature African violets and collecting all different kinds of Aglaonema's because I love their drama and colors they pop in every room. It's always fun to try something new in the planet world to you. What someone else might walk past might be your new baby plant to fawn over. I currenting am crazy over this hugely variegated Pothos I did a double take on and could not leave behind every time I walk into the kitchen it's hanging there making me smile. :D

[@hollyhasegawa6095]

Thanks Ashley, I totally agree with you, I have a lot of common house plants, and I have a lot of more expensive plants some that are not as common and I just love all plants I really love all of my Hoya, there are some common ones with those and some not so common, I just find that plants five me joy and that is one of the reasons I keep buying them, the ones I have trouble finding I do order on line from either Steve's Leaves or Gabriella Plants or Planterina and have had great luck and all of my plants have arrived in beautiful condition. Thanks again Ashley for a great video, by the way I did get to meet Harli and her mom Stef when I was in Utah, I live in Idaho, take care sending love and hugs, bye for now.

[@jessiewillets2105]

I love hearing you talk about common plants. They are what I can afford.

[@cr34t1ve6]

I live in NE, but was visiting my boyfriend in Seguin TX and they had the mican for $12. I have never bought a plant so fast in my life! A mican 1/4 the size I got in NE is like $40-50, it was so nice to find one for that cheap :)

[@maxkfuller]

I recently got a Philodendron Micans with so many leaves and vines on a small wooden trellis for 12 eur (15 usd) ! Similar size to the one in 18:13

[@ashleybrown8047]

The nursery I used to work at in CA has string of turtle rn in 4” pots for $42.50 😭😭 I wish they weren’t so expensive in my area

[@scissorxdisco]

Oh! I love the passiflora, it’s so cute. It kinda reminds me of my morning glory, it always grabs into itself and gets tangled. Lol.

[@ShadowNight-kt3dz]

I love passion vine. Here in Louisiana they’re native, we call them maypops. I have tons in my garden. Our passion vines have 3 pointed leaves, but the one you have is beautiful!

[@PlantingAshley]

Im so jealous 😭

[@scissorxdisco]

This week our local Kroger grocery store had string of turtles and hearts for $6.99 and then on sale for 1/2 price 😮 I missed out but I’m so happy prices are coming down. I did get a SoH though because I’ve been patiently waiting for them to be inexpensive again. Lol.

[@melodysmith5573]

I actually enjoy my common plants more than the ones I paid up for

[@katiescherf7784]

Loved this! Thanks Ashley

[@alexz4716]

That silver plant look like something from space!

[@melcel9003]

I'm confused about the way you use "sport", in reference to the mostly white leaf on your marble queen, every single leaf on my marble queen is the same color as your "sport" leaf. Is my entire plant a "sport" variegated marble queen or is yours just starting to get the light it needs to be as variegated as it can naturally be?

[@SickBoiRENegade]

I have 2 marble queens... one hanging in a SW window that has very high variegation(major albo vibes lol) The other is a prop from the same plant but it looks more like Ashley's. It's about 4 ft back from a N facing window so light does have a big effect on the variegation of this plant.

[@hollypuckett3931]

SoT is still crazy expensive in my area. Average cost was about $18 for a 2" pot 🤮 Recently saw a huge 6" for $25 and honestly that was a major sighting

[@PlantingAshley]

Oh man :/

[@HeatherHoyas]

30 plants……and that’s just what’s downstairs 😜

[@PlantingAshley]

Heheeee

[@scissorxdisco]

I had a spider plant inside and it hated me. I gave up and put it outside and basically ignored it. I went outside in early summer and it was blooming. 🤪

[@shanoncollier7641]

I think I have a variegated Chelsea too

[@TheWackoGreenAlien]

I've only been doing the plant game full on for like a year, but had cacti and succulents for 5 years, and 100% honesty, of my 30 odd plants, the most I've payed for 1 is £19.99... But tbh there are a good few that I really desperately want like hoya mathilde and hoya serpens that I can only find online for like 30 to 40 £ so... that number might change in the next few months.

[@madelinemarieluby7094]

I would love to see a video about your squish mallows! or maybe a squish hunting video

[@mathilda6763]

I like to think that plants in their evolution tried a lot different leaf shapes but only the successful suvived. They didn't know how a butterfly looked it's just that the plants that randomly had butterfly leaves had a higher survival rate and so were ableto pass on their genes. Though I think there were studies about plants being able to "see". there was one with a vining plant that survives by mimicking its host plant....they tested it with an outlandish looking artificial plant as a host and it still mimicked the fake plant.maybe it has to do with light perception and reflections? They don't have a cetral nervous system of course..but they are still able to sense their surroundings in some way.

[@lorifox4699]

Planterina has Micans for 60 dollars!!! Ugh!! I found my 6 inch for 20 dollars local to me.

[@bonniesnow1911]

Thanks for the update bc I can only afford the common plants

[@asmonet]

FYI, your Marble Queen isn't showing sport v, it will get 50/50 cream and green if it has the right light! So if new growth comes in like that, it's probably happy. :)

[@PlantingAshley]

I meant to saw snowqueen not sport baha but im so glad its happy 👉🏻👈🏻

[@asmonet]

@@PlantingAshley ah! Yeah I was wondering if it was actually a snow queen because that sucker is WHITE. I just got one in a trade a couple weeks ago and I'm in love! They're gorgeous either way, but in the right light they're stunning! ❤

[@PlantingAshley]

Theyre so perfect! I can only fond snowqueens when i go to slc

[@sarahletscher2155]

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT ANIMAL CROSSING GYRODITE POT OMG I NEED IT!!!

[@meggieplants]

Awww Ash so glad the marble babe is doing well! One of my favorites and favorites to share👏🏼

[@PlantingAshley]

Me too thank you so much for sending her my wayyyyy✨✨

[@maripesqueira2515]

😭😩😩😩 i got my marble queen for $20 and then like a week after I repotted it, dropped all of its leaves except 8 and it had dozens and dozens of leaves I think it was some terrible soil, the water is brown Coming out the bottom when I water it 😭😭 soo should I repot it again into some better soil 🥺 (update I took the plant out of the 8 inch pot and looked at the roots remember it was fully root bound in a 6in pot 3 months ago and now it only has 3 inches of good roots 😮‍💨🥴🤭 good ol fashion root rot ) thank you for telling me too repot it cause it would have definitely died in the 8 in pot 😩😰😓😭😭😭 idk what I did too the poor roots when I repotted her but I’m never repotting a plant AGAIN 😩

[@coagulatedsalts4711]

it's dead lol, just cut it up and propagate it for a second chance.

[@PlantingAshley]

Oh my gosh im so sorry to hear that! I dont even know what coulve caused that except maybe you distressed the roots too much when you moved it

[@SickBoiRENegade]

I would change the soil. Or just chop and prop 🤘😊

[@maripesqueira2515]

Thank you for your response it has nooo nodes too chop and prop ☹️😭 so I’m thinking about just repotting it into some better soil and too take a look at the roots but in scared 😟 what if it just makes it worse 🥴

[@maripesqueira2515]

@@SickBoiRENegade it has nooo nodes that I can propagate soo I’ll take your advise and repot it into some better soil 😄 thank you

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@PlantingAshley]

❤️❤️

[@theplantwitch6052]

What was the name of the butterfly plant guy Google is not helping me

[@PlantingAshley]

Passaflora

[@theplantwitch6052]

@@PlantingAshley thank you!!

[@the_busy_beaver_brooke]

I have 5 that I paid more than 20 dollars for...I have 125+

[@shanoncollier7641]

First viewer for the first time ever.

[@PlantingAshley]

Haha congrats :)

[@LaurenMichelle1985]

New follower here… is it a regular thing for her to constantly be flipping her hair all over the place, and staring at herself off camera? 🧐

[@kelseyparker324]

Around here they call the variegated chelsea, Hoya ‘Amore’ and jack up the price 😒

[@ellonico1312]

collecting only rare plants is low key colonizer behavior

[@jessicasmith6289]

Ok well simple answer to “How did the plant know what a butterfly looks like?”….. God created plants. Period. Clearly evidence of a creator. How did all these plants just evolve an happen by chance?? They didnt.